Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Remember six months ago, when France, Italy, and England dragged a reluctant Obama into agreeing to participate in a "no-fly" zone to ground the Libyan Air Force, so that Qa... Kha... Gadhafi wouldn't be able to use it to massacre unarmed civilians? And Obama said stuff about "time-limited, scope-limited" and "days, not weeks" and how we'd just be providing logistical and reconnaisance support for other NATO forces?

And how we then spent the next six months handling the brunt of the sorties, making sure Qa... Kha... Gadhafi's planes didn't fly, nor his helicopters, or his tanks or cannons or armored personnel carriers or guys with rifles?

Because I remember it happening pretty much that way, but MiniTru is telling me I'm wrong:

Wait, what? A quick scan around the usual sources and you'd think that Barry was preparing to storm Qa... Kha... Gadhafi's compound single-handedly, with a knife in his teeth, and gas prices will recede like the oceans did at his election.

(Seriously: the local news had a reporter and camera crew out staring at the digital price sign at a local Speedway gas station in the pre-dawn darkness, waiting for the numbers to fall on the news from Tripoli, like a Roman augur taking the auspices from a flock of pigeons crapping on the Forum.)

21 comments:

Of course The Anointed One will take credit for winning the Non-War in Libya. After all, this is the guy who led the Navy Seals into Bin Laden's Compound and single-handedly put a Stern Warning right between his eyes, after all.

"Barry was preparing to storm Qa... Kha... Gadhafi's compound single-handedly, with a knife in his teeth, "

Naw, it took him 16 hours to decide to take down bin Laden, and he wasn't even on vacation, then.

If Barry "pulls the trigger" again, it will be about October 2012, and will be spun as a "strategic success" with no consideration for any elections that might be just around the corner.

Golly, I hope America doesn't elect any more Chicago thugs anymore.

I did my Navy boot camp and ET school at Great Lakes, back in 1973-74, and met some fine people in Chicago. And yet the image the area earns is Al Capone, Mayor Daley, and (Kenyan native son and "Oh, did *that* opponent drop out, too?") B. Hussein Obama. Oh, and Chicago is known for denying handguns to the law-abiding, even though their crooks don't have an access problem. I miss Paul Harvey.

Y'know, we could have "won" in Afghanistan by nuking the place to glass, and I'll bet that would have resulted in zero American lives lost.

It's good that no American troops were killed. Let's say that up front.

I would, however, like to know how much American money has been spent in Libya. The vanguard US press, who kept a rolling tally of both deaths and costs when the guy in the Oval office had an (R) next to his name, is strangely silent now...

pooh!,pooh I say!! This entire"affair"reeks of a smash-and-grab by the powers that be against kdaffy,who was actually managing(sort of)to behave himself. The only thing that WE will get out of it is the bill,and possibly another protracted guerilla war. Thanks President Sotello,thanks a lot!!!

Ooh! Or, maybe Obama will nominate Hitler for European Security Czar, and MoMar for Mideast Security Czar, while Congress is in recess and cannot say a thing. Now, who would make a good Sharia Implementation Czar?